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Subject: Re: Digital Public Library of America Announces Partnership
with David Rumsey Map Collection
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:53:00 -0400
From: Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>


Robert Darnton's general discussion regarding the recent launch of the
Digital Public Library of America project is here:

<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/apr/25/national-digital-public-library-launched/?pagination=false>


            Joel Kovarsky


On 4/30/2013 1:09 PM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library,
UW Milwaukee wrote:
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> *Subject:* [dpla] Digital Public Library of America Announces
> Partnership with David Rumsey Map Collection
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>       Digital Public Library of America Announces Partnership with David
>       Rumsey Map Collection
>
> /April 30, 2013/
>
> *Cambridge,*MA **— The Digital Public Library of America is pleased to
> announce it is partnering with theDavid Rumsey Map Collection
> <http://www.davidrumsey.com/>to provide online access to tens of
> thousands of significant historical maps and images. As part of the
> relationship, David Rumsey will provide metadata for over 38,000 maps
> and images, making the entirety of his notable online collection
> instantly accessible via theDPLA website <http://dp.la/>andAPI
> <http://dp.la/info/developers/codex/>­.
>
> A couple prominent examples of items from the Rumsey collections
> available through the DPLA are/The Eagle Map of the United States/,
> produced by Joseph and James Churchman, Philadelphia, 1833, (view on the
> DPLA
> <http://dp.la/item/1619731699db08a2c2f8584e12729e72?back_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdp.la%2Fsearch%3Futf8%3D%E2%9C%93%26q%3DEagle%2Bmap>)/,/and
>
>
> the/Map of Lewis and Clark's Track, Across the Western Portion of North
> America/, produced in 1814 (view on the DPLA
> <http://dp.la/item/a23e9843d4d3345245c9e577c1265081?back_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdp.la%2Fsearch%3Futf8%3D%E2%9C%93%26q%3Dlewis%2Bclark%2Bmap%2B1814>).
>
>
> Other noteworthy items from Rumsey’s collections range from maps found
> in historic atlases to images of three-dimensional objects such as
> globes.
>
> “I am very excited to have my digital library of historical maps added
> to the DPLA,” Rumsey said. “Maps tell stories that complement texts,
> images, and other resources found in the growing DPLA library. And the
> open content policies of my online library fit perfectly with DPLA’s
> mission to make cultural resources freely available to all. I see DPLA
> as reinvigorating the role of public libraries in educating children and
> adults in the digital age. I hope that my participation can serve as an
> example to others with private collections to share them with the public
> through the DPLA. Private collectors have always helped to build
> libraries and now they can do the same with digital cultural assets.”
>
> “David Rumsey's incredible collection of historical maps is one of the
> great private collections in the United States,” added DPLA Executive
> Director Dan Cohen. “What he has been able to assemble and make broadly
> available is simply astonishing. It is an honor to have these maps as
> part of the DPLA, and together to help others discover what their
> communities looked like in the past. We thank David for his generosity.”
>
> Rumsey, President of Cartography Associates, a digital publishing
> company based in San Francisco, began building a collection of North and
> South American historical maps and related cartographic materials in
> 1980. His collection, with more than 150,000 maps, is one of the largest
> private map collections in the United States. In 1995, Rumsey began the
> task of making his collection public by building theonline David Rumsey
> Historical Map Collection <http://www.davidrumsey.com/>. Currently the
> online web site has over 38,000 high-resolution images of maps from his
> collection.
> In 2009, Rumsey committed to donating his entire collection – both
> physical and digital – to Stanford University, which is currently
> creating an all-new Map Center to house it.
>
> Rumsey’s online collection of maps is free to the public and is updated
> monthly. All of the online maps are searchable via the DPLA.
>
> *About the Digital Public Library of America*
> The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of
> America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely
> available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human
> expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to
> records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science. The
> DPLA aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials,
> and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely usable and
> used. More information is online at http://dp.la <http://dp.la/>.
>
> *About the David Rumsey Map Collection*
> The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 25 years ago and
> contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 18th and
> 19th century maps of North and South America, although it also has maps
> of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes
> atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of
> exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials
> including pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps. Items range in
> date from about 1700 to 1950s. More information is online
> athttp://www.davidrumsey.com/about/about.
>
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>

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